In truth, the law also prevents NC cities and towns from passing ordinances which would protect the lgbt community from discrimination in such things as housing and employment. But the Family Research Council will not stop with its deliberately inaccurate messaging. And to make matters worse (or better if you enjoy reading FRC's meltdown because it is losing the messaging war over anti-lgbt laws), the organization is now lashing out at Georgia, Louisiana, San Francisco, and New York.

The group even attacks it own ally, Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana:

North Carolina's policy may be settled -- but the dust certainly
hasn't. After having their way with political squishes like Georgia's
Governor Nathan Deal (R), liberals are beside themselves with Governor
Pat McCrory's decision to listen to the voters of his state and repeal
Charlotte's hugely unpopular bathroom bill.
Big Business is hyperventilating, out-of-state leaders are boycotting,
and the ACLU is suing. But does North Carolina regret its decision? Not
one bit. Unlike Georgia, McCrory knows the best way to silence a bully
is ignore it.

While Georgia tried to appease the unappeasable, North Carolina set
aside the hysteria and did what was in the best interest of the people
and children of the state. Seven or eight years ago, most Americans
would have been appalled at the idea of letting grown men into girls'
restrooms. Now, after two terms of this radical president, liberals are
banning travel to a state because they won't allow it. Honestly, it's
almost baffling that this is where we are as a nation. The governor of New York and mayor of San Francisco
are so adamant about allowing men to shower with our daughters that
they're forbidding "non-essential travel" to the state of North Carolina
to promote it!

Isn't it interesting how intolerant people are? Christians aren't
outlawing trips to Georgia because the governor trampled on their
religious liberty. Yet entire companies are threatening to pull out of
the state because Governor McCrory refused to risk the safety of his
entire state for less than one half of one percent of the
country's population. And, it turns out, he may have done more to
protect the people who identify as transgendered more than most liberals
have. Just this week, a transgendered woman was raped in one of these
new unisex bathrooms -- at an LGBT landmark
no less. At the Stonewall Inn in New York City, the liberals' monument
to "tolerance," one of their own was attacked. Even here, at this
bastion of sexual confusion, these policies are hurting the people they
were designed to "help!"

So when organizations like the NCAA are blasted for staying on the
sidelines in fights like Houston's, maybe they've already learned a
lesson we should be teaching corporate America: neutrality is the best
policy. When the Final Four tips off in Space City, it will be because
college basketball decided to listen to voters. After a similar bathroom
bill lost in a landslide in November, the NCAA realized that while it could roll governors like Indiana's Mike Pence
(R), voters like Texas's were too much for them. Now, the organization
is the target of liberals who can't understand why college basketball
won't join in their sexual confused crusade. "We wanted them to make a
statement before the election..." the president of Texas's ACLU complained, "and we didn't get it." That's because Houston had already made a statement -- sending the measure down in flames.

Still, governors like Louisiana's John Bel Edwards (D), the same man
who spoke to an annual gathering of pastors last week about the
importance of prayer and faith, has pledged to roll back the religious
liberty of those same pastors in an executive order that was adopted
last year by former Bobby Jindal. Now churches could lose their tax
exemption, businessmen and women of faith can be fined, religious groups
that help homeless people or drug addicts can be denied funding -- all
because they don't believe in same-sex marriage and gender by
self-determination. Yet ironically, these are the same people who've
expressed the most concern for children. Unlike the White House, they
don't believe that the compassionate response is trapping teenagers in
this sexual confusion.

"Like so many others across the country," Press Secretary Josh
Earnest told reporters, "we are concerned about the potential harmful
impact of [North Carolina's] law, especially on transgender youth, and
believe it is mean-spirited and sends the wrong message." Mean-spirited?
According to the American College of Pediatricians, the Left's agenda
is child abuse!
The harms of this gender ideology, which the ACP lays out here in its
statement of opposition, can destroy a person for life. What sends the
wrong message are policies that try to keep children frozen in this
fleeting phase of uncertainty. A full 98% of gender-confused boys and 88% of gender-confused girls
"eventually accept their biological sex after naturally passing through
puberty." Yet here we are, as a nation, holding states hostage for
recognizing what science already has: that political correctness is
hazardous to your health and to the health of millions of young people.

FRC also continues to push the lie that the American College of Pediatricians is a legitimate organization rather than a group dedicated to astroturfing anti-lgbt lies.

NC Gov. Pat McCrory is holding fast to his guns in support of the law, but he seems to be losing momentum with every attempt he makes to defend it. If by chance McCrory's law does stand even with all of the attention and potential lawsuit against it, no one is fooled by any claims of "public safety" of protecting women and girls in bathrooms and restrooms. This claim that lgbts want to either invade the locker rooms and restrooms
of females or want to "punish" people who don't support marriage
equality (which propelled Georgia's failed bill) are sad moral panics helped along by religious
entitlement and the exploitation of fears.

These moral panics are no different than the lies lgbts had to put up with in the 70s when Anita Bryant claimed that we wanted to recruit children or in more recent years when Maggie Gallagher and her bunch from the National Organization for Marriage claimed that we wanted to "corrupt" the idea of marriage.

Perhaps FRC is starting to realize that amongst a large number of Americans, this act is wearing thin. I think the organization is beginning to see the proverbial "writing on the wall."

And that would be fitting. The phrase "writing on the wall" comes from a Bible story in which a king, during a feast, saw a disembodied hand write messages on a wall in a language he did not understand. When the messages were later translated to the king, they told him that he had done so much wrong that his kingdom was about to be taken away from him that very night.

Maybe, just maybe, FRC is catching the hint. And the hint is scaring the organization just a little bit.

Editor's note - This post is no excuse for the lgbt community to rest on our laurels in hopes that success and equality will come to us. We must continue to fight because, as a good friend of mine has said on numerous occasions, it's not over.

FRC: Isn't it interesting how intolerant people are? Christians aren't outlawing trips to Georgia because the governor trampled on their religious liberty.

“religious liberty” in that context means ‘The Power to Discriminate.’

“…or in more recent years when Maggie Gallagher and her bunch from the National Organization for Marriage claimed that we wanted to ‘corrupt’ the idea of marriage.”

And we must remember that the word “marriage” used in that context is a euphemism for love.---Also, thanks for the story behind the meaning of “The writing on the wall,” Alvin -- the part about the disembodied hand gives it even more meaning. It was only recently that I learned that the phrase "written in stone" was a reference to the ten commandments.

About Me

Alvin McEwen is 45-year-old African-American gay man who resides in Columbia, SC.
McEwen's blog, Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters, and writings have been mentioned by Americablog.com, Goodasyou.org, People for the American Way, PageOneQ.com, The Washington Post, Raw Story, The Advocate, Media Matters for America, Crooksandliars.com, Thinkprogress.org, Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish, Melissa Harris-Perry, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, The Washington Blade, and Foxnews.com.
In addition, he is also a past contributor to Pam's House Blend,Justice For All, LGBTQ Nation, and Alternet.org. He is a present contributor to the Daily Kos and the Huffington Post,
He is the 2007 recipient of the Harriet Daniels Hancock Volunteer of the Year Award and the 2010 recipient of the Order of the Pink Palmetto from the SC Pride Movement as well as the 2009 recipient of the Audre Lorde/James Baldwin Civil Rights Activist Award from SC Black Pride. In addition, he is a three-time nominee of the Ed Madden Media Advocacy Award from SC Pride.